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----- Forwarded message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[email protected]> -----
To: Mark Murray <[email protected]>
cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>, Eivind Eklund <[email protected]>,
Peter Hawkins <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:13:19 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[email protected]>
> <ridiculous>
> The chap I want to meet can whistle modem tones and do mental arithmetic
> well enough to log onto his local ISP and send PGP-encrypted MIME email
> using an ordinary telephone handset.
> </ridiculous>
For similar degree of silliness, try telneting to localhost at port
6000 if you're running an X server and see if you can dialog with the
server *just* by typing characters at the keyboard (usage of meta or
compose key is allowed). I once fooled around with this back in the
early days of X, using a copy of the X11 protocol spec and a
calculator for specifying the integer constants in the right byte
order, and managed to create a window, allocate a GC and draw a line
before I returned to my senses and wondered why I was wasting my time
with such silly pursuits. :-)
Jordan
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